Mark,
I've been to Dublin and have known many Irish whose English is charming but recognisably from Ireland. I was joking--although as you know there are parts of England where language is stressed very differently, as there are parts of America likewise. I realise that it is not uniform. I worked in Northern Ireland, Wales and Devon and Teeside and Tyneside and environs in between as well as yer home counties. On my first night in London I attended a French horn recital in the V & A and behind me I heard a row of Frafflies speaking for the first time in my life. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud. I lived and worked in London for almost a decade so I'm pretty used to the sounds.
Janet
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